The bill was scheduled for a vote in the Senate Rules Committee but was postponed. Democrats and abortion rights advocates had long feared the bill would put doctors who perform abortions at risk of being sued. The concerns over the personhood provision became more acute when the Alabama Supreme Court ruled last week that embryos were people under that state’s constitution. The ruling led clinics to stop the IVF process, which included the storage of frozen embryos. “Any time you start talking about personhood, IVF is on the table.”

Source: Washington Post February 27, 2024 02:50 UTC